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Small Angle Scattering data analysis for dense polydisperse systems: the FLAC program

Flavio Carsughi·Achille Giacometti·Domenico Gazzillo
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FLAC is a program to calculate the small-angle neutron scattering intensity of highly packed polydisperse systems of neutral or charged hard spheres within the Percus-Yevick and the Mean Spherical Approximation closures, respectively. The polydisperse system is defined by a size distribution function and the macro-particles have hard sphere radii which may differ from the size of their scattering cores. With FLAC, one can either simulate scattering intensities or fit experimental small angle neutron scattering data. In output scattering intensities, structure factors and pair correlation functions are provided. Smearing effects due to instrumental resolution, vertical slit, primary beam width and multiple scattering effects are also included on the basis of the existing theories. Possible form factors are those of filled or two-shell spheres.

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Flavio Carsughi, Achille Giacometti, Domenico Gazzillo. 2000-11-14. Small Angle Scattering data analysis for dense polydisperse systems: the FLAC program. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0010-4655(00)00202-2

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